Tip: Current Age Fields

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Dec 3, 2019

 Sep 10, 2021 Oct 7, 2025

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Each Arkansas APCD table — Member/Enrollment, Medical Claims, Pharmacy Claims, Dental Claims — contains a derived field representing the current age of the member. The value in this field is calculated based on the date the data was loaded into the database table and the member date of birth. It is possible that the ages differ between data tables. 

Current Age Data Fields:

ME014_CURR_AGE Member Age based on Date of Birth and File Processing Date

ME150A_CURR_AGE Subscriber Age based on Date of Birth and File Processing Date

MC013_CURR_AGE Member Age based on Date of Birth and File Processing Date

MC990_CURR_AGE Subscriber Age based on Date of Birth and File Processing Date

PC013_CURR_AGE Member Current Age based on Date of Birth and File Processing Date

PC955_CURR_AGE Subscriber Current Age based on Date of Birth and File Processing Date

DC013_CURR_AGE Member Age based on Date of Birth and File Processing Date

DC990_CURR_AGE Subscriber Age based on Date of Birth and File Processing Date

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Applicable for data requests fulfilled before January, 2020. This issue has been resolved. Corrected data is available in all data released after January 2020.

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